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SS.11 anti-tank missile-launcher version of the French tank AMX-13. The first combat use of the SS.11 was in 1956 by the French Air Force, fired from a Dassault MD 311 light twin-engine transport, as a method of attacking fortified caves located in steep mountain gorges during the Algerian war.
In January 2024 Lithuanian State Defence Council agreed to purchase the tanks and associated support vehicles to equip a Tank Battalion, but the final cost and the number of vehicles remained a subject of negotiations. [77] [78] The base variant of the Leopard 2A8 is equipped with the Trophy APS, making Lithuania a potential operator ...
The Nag missile (IAST: Nāga - 'Cobra'), also called "Prospina" for the land-attack version, is an Indian third-generation, all-weather, fire-and-forget, lock-on after launch, anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) with an operational range of 500 m to 20 km depending on variant.
Bionix Counter-Mine Vehicle (Trailblazer) - The SAF has inducted a 30-ton class Counter-Mine Vehicle (CMV) built on the Bionix chassis called the Trailblazer, which uses a mine flail system. In addition to mine-clearing, the Trailblazer is able to mark its trails using a lane marking system with pneumatically fired rods, enabling vehicles to ...
Drone counter measures (1st Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the US Army drill with the Battelle DroneDefender, 30 October 2018, Iraq.) Radio jamming or communications jamming is the deliberate transmission of radio signals that disrupt communications by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio to the point where the target communications link is ...
The "Armata" Universal Combat Platform (Russian: Армата) [8] [9] is a Russian advanced next generation modular heavy military tracked vehicle platform. The Armata platform is the basis of the T-14 (a main battle tank), the T-15 (a heavy infantry fighting vehicle), a combat engineering vehicle, an armoured recovery vehicle, a heavy armoured personnel carrier, a tank support combat vehicle ...
A British Meter, Contamination, No. 1 set, lacking headphones and haversack. The first large scale British civil defence issue was the Geiger–Müller counter Meter, Contamination, No. 1 set — stock number "5CG0012", of 1953. [4] It had 0–10 mR/hour range with external probe and headphones.
This experience prompted a notable leap in tank development in Nazi Germany, mainly in an effort to counter these new threats. By 22 June 1941, the Red Army deployed almost 1,000 T-34 and over 500 KV tanks, [ 1 ] concentrated in five [ 2 ] of their twenty-nine mechanized corps .